Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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The science of art

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Along one wall of a downtown Bryan building hang glasses that portray 3-D images. Along another, classic art paintings and drawings, some of penciled faces, others of abstract art. All this week, at 206 N. Main St., work from master's students in Tex ...

OSHA probes oil rig blast

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT

The cause of Sunday's oil rig explosion in Washington County that injured two workers remains under investigation, but one man is expected to be released from Brooke Army Medical Center within a few days. "The other man had slightly more serious burn ...

2 attorneys admonished

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:04 PM PDT

A former Brazos County attorney had his license suspended by the State Bar of Texas after it found he settled a lawsuit for a client and deposited the settlement money in his own bank account.The client wasn't informed of the settlement until two yea ...

Man accused of forcing woman into car, assaulting her

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:05 AM PDT

Bryan police said they arrested a 23-year-old man Tuesday after he reportedly forced a woman inside a car and assaulted her.Jose Delaluz Anguiano of Bryan was charged with assault of a family or household member with a previous conviction.Police said ...

Case against lawyer closed

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT

A special prosecutor said this week that he's closed his investigation of Bryan lawyer Ty Clevenger after a Robertson County grand jury declined to indict him on charges of filing lawsuits without merit. Clevenger was under investigation based on all ...

Local couples dance for charity (new video)

Posted: 04 May 2010 09:49 AM PDT

The nonprofit Health For All Clinic raised $50,000 at a weekend fundraiser that put the spotlight on local residents showing off their dance moves. To watch local officials, educators, members of the media, business folk and more strut their stuff o ...

Police: Man drove into Pizza Hut

Posted: 04 May 2010 02:31 AM PDT

Police said they believe a 26-year-old man who drove into a Pizza Hut in College Station Tuesday morning may have experienced a seizure before the wreck. The Bryan man was driving a Mitsubishi SUV westbound on University Drive East when it left the ...

Wellborn residents submit petition to CS

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA petition with more than 1,286 signatures of College Station residents was delivered on Tuesday to City Hall in an effort to encourage the City Council to let Wellborn residents vote on incorporation. Members of the group Citizens ...

Driver tossed PCP, police say

Posted: 04 May 2010 03:19 AM PDT

College Station police said they arrested a 26-year-old man on felony charges during a traffic stop early Tuesday after they saw him toss a bottle containing an illegal drug out of his vehicle.Calvin Dewayne Gooden of Bryan was charged with tampering ...

Times Square bomb suspect charged with terrorism

Posted: 04 May 2010 10:55 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was charged Tuesday with terrorism and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the botched Times Square bombing. The government said he confessed to receiving explosives training in Pakistan.Faisal ...

Training session set for election workers

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe city of Bryan will conduct an election training session on Thursday for election judges, clerks, school district and city officials who will be working Saturday's municipal election.The course, which will cover voting procedures ...

2 Arizona city councils vote to sue over new law

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:28 AM PDT

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Another city council in Arizona has voted to sue over the new state immigration law.The Flagstaff City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night in favor of the resolution before a crowd that initially numbered in the hundreds but d ...

Man jailed on theft, burglary charges

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA 32-year-old Bryan man remained behind bars Tuesday on felony charges of home burglary and theft. Derrick Leray Megress was arrested Monday after police concluded investigations into a home burglary and theft from a grocery store, ...

Texas Tech seeks to have individuals dismissed

Posted: 05 May 2010 12:14 AM PDT

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Attorneys for Texas Tech University said in documents filed Tuesday that they want four school employees dismissed from former football coach Mike Leach's lawsuit over his firing and argued again that the school is immune from the s ...

BVSWMA honored with statewide award

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency recently received a statewide award for its efforts to reduce the amount of waste entering the landfill.The agency's bi-annual household hazardous waste collection event won a first-pl ...

About 900 VA nurses in Texas mistakenly get raises

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:24 AM PDT

SAN ANTONIO -- An audit confirms more than 900 Veterans Affairs nurses in Texas mistakenly received extra pay and could have to give the money back.Marie Weldon with the South Texas Veterans Health Care System says administrators will help the 800 re ...

Gulf Coast watches, waits for path of oil spill

Posted: 04 May 2010 02:36 AM PDT

NEW ORLEANS -- The sea calmed Tuesday, helping efforts to fight a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico but providing scant comfort for people along beaches and bayous waiting anxiously to find out when and where the mess might come ashore.So far o ...

Police: Man attacked his girlfriend, teen

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA 34-year-old Bryan man was in the Brazos County Jail on Tuesday, accused of cutting his girlfriend and her daughter with a box cutter. According to the police report, officers responded to a disturbance on Water Oak Street around m ...

Southern Minn. man accused of stabbing 29 pigs

Posted: 05 May 2010 12:19 AM PDT

FAIRMONT, Minn. -- Authorities say a southern Minnesota man was drunk when he allegedly went into a barn and stabbed 29 pigs.Twenty-three-year-old Curtis Lee Adams of Winnegago faces burglary, cruelty to animals and other charges in last week's incid ...

Jump right in

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Sebastian Grothe, 2, cools off under a torrent of water while playing with friends at the Copperfield Drive Splash Pad in Bryan on Tuesday. ...

Congressmen pressure Japan on custody rights

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:21 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Two members of Congress are seeking a resolution they hope will pressure Japan into closing a loophole they say allows American children to be abducted.Dozens of American fathers say they have been unable to see their children for years ...

Witness: Slain Klan recruit shouted 'I want out'

Posted: 05 May 2010 12:21 AM PDT

COVINGTON, La. -- A Klu Klux Klan recruit agrily cursed a white supremacist leader and yelled "I want out" before he shot her to death the day after she was initiated in 2008, a former group member testified Tuesday.Frankie Stafford gave a chilling a ...

FDA found bacteria in lots for recalled Tylenol

Posted: 04 May 2010 10:54 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Ingredients used by Johnson & Johnson in some of the 40 varieties of children's cold medicines recalled last week were contaminated with bacteria, according to a report by the Food and Drug Administration.Agency officials said Tuesd ...

Crews race to fix leak

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:00 PM PDT

PORT FOURCHON, La. -- It is a job that requires the expertise of a rocket scientist and the precision of a surgeon.Engineers are racing to stem the disastrous oil leak a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, relying on a series of highly technical -- and ...

Suspect admits to N.Y. bomb plot

Posted: 04 May 2010 05:03 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Seized from a plane about to fly to the Middle East, a Pakistan-born man admitted training to make bombs at a terrorism camp in his native land before he rigged an SUV with a homemade device to explode in Times Square, authorities said Tu ...

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